Mail Archives: opendos/1997/04/15/23:29:09
What if you used two hardrives with W#95 on D for example and Opendos on
C? With my current machine I could do this instead of two portions
of one drive. The current configuration boots to Opendos from C and I could
place W#95 on D? Any additional thoughts are welcomed.
Mark
On 1997-04-15 b52g AT usa DOT net said to mwarchol AT flash DOT net
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b5>> Listies,
b5>> Can windows#95 be operated with Opendos? I am unclear where
b5>to find Sort of.
b5>As far as I know it is just about possible, using a partition
b5>manager. This means of course that you will have to chose between
b5>OD and 95 each time the machine boots.
b5>At present, 95 will not run on top of opendos like 3.1 does.
b5>>this answer in the help information and cannot determin how the
b5>>two systems may conflict. If others have expierence with this
b5>>type of configuration please respond or if there is a fact-file
b5>>covering this and necessary means for doing it correctly please
b5>>forward. My goal is to hopefully operate Opendos for those
b5>>applacations I require in dos and use W#95 for windows
b5>>applacations I desire. Currently W#31 is running successfully
b5>with my Opendos o-system.
b5>Make sure you know what you are letting yourself in for.
b5>In my experience win95 is an absolute *words fail me*!
b5>We have two machines.
b5>Mine runs opendos and win 3.1 after I migrated from DRDOS 6.
b5>Occasionally I have small crashes when installing new hardware.
b5>Dad's machine runs windows 95.
b5>Each time new hardware is added/changed, win95 crashes totally and
b5>we have to reformat drive C, salvaging what information we can.
b5>BTW, he writes win95 training courses.
b5>This is plug-and-pay:
b5>1. Switch off system
b5>2. Remove device
b5>3. Add new device.
b5>4. Switch on.
b5>5. Win95 detects new hardware and looks for device drivers.
b5>6. Win95 cannot find device drivers and asks you for them.
b5>7. You give win95 the drivers and it crashes.
b5>8. You remove the device and spend 3-4 days examining system
b5>properties, irq conflicts, buggy drivers etc.
b5>9. Reformat drive C and rebuild the system.
b5>10. go to 5.
b5>11. Gather friends and family and all their expansion cards.
b5>12. Swap borrowed expansion cards until win95 stops crashing.
b5>13. Buy, steal or negotiate a swap for the card that works
b5>under win95.
b5>My system is full of really expensive kit that destroyed
b5>win95 in my dad's machine.
b5>Moral(s): [feel free to quote, put in your sig etc]
b5>Switch to win95 if you feel lucky, punk.
b5>Once I added a sb32 pnp to Dad's system. It took 3 days and I had
b5>nightmares about the
b5>device manager window for 7 nights afterwards.
b5>Win95 works for some people. It could be you!
b5>I was never superstitious until I usewd win95.
b5>> Thanks in advance for any help.
b5>> Mark
b5>> Mark F. Warchol, MWarchol AT Flash DOT net
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